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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: χάσμα

(Strong's #5490 — Noun Neuter — chasma — khas'-mah )

akin to chasko, "to yawn" (Eng., "chasm"), is found in Luke 16:26 . In the Sept., 2 Samuel 18:17 , two words are used with reference to Absalom's body, bothunos which signifies "a great pit," and chasma, "a yawning abyss, or precipice," with a deep pit at the bottom, into which the body was cast.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Gulf'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​g/gulf.html. 1940.
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